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Word: ought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer of this report does not pretend that he is better than anyone else in this respect; he has probably been worse. In a final report, however, one hopes to pass on to future officers something which will suggest to them what the Brooks House ought to be. The same number of prominent men in each class should be giving all their extra time to Brooks House as are giving it, for example, to the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Progress All Along the Line Reported As P.B.H. Officers Render Account | 4/8/1924 | See Source »

...whether they are still to be open to ordinary mortals, there is no apparent reason-except, expense-why their rooms should not be modernized ater the fashion of Grays. It is bad enough that nothing can be done to exteriors of these two exhibits. The interiors at least ought to receive whatever attention can reasonably be given them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL | 4/3/1924 | See Source »

...true that the golden age of the Haughton regime made the football seasons more than satisfactory to the students and alumni--but in other sports there was no overwhelming superiority to lull would-be dissenters into "innocuous desuetude". Having a clear idea, however, of the place which athletics ought to occupy in college, or more especially, at Harvard, Dean Briggs has by constant practical exemplification of this idea, actually created a tradition, which in all likelihood will determine the University's policy for some time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SEVENTEEN-YEAR TRUST | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

...reconstruction rest upon poular approval, a very necessary step toward a solution of Europe's problems is the clearing away of war hatreds and vindictiveness. By example the House appropriation should help in a small degree to dispel the European atmosphere of mistrust. For the United States, the bill ought but mark a commendable preface to the real task of aiding Europe in a reparations settlement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BENEVOLENT SIDESTEPPING | 3/26/1924 | See Source »

...deferred for a year issuance of his Encyclical, corresponding intrinsically to a new President's first message to Congress. But when the Latin document was finally made public in 1923, it referred to the occupation of Rome by the Italian Monarchy, with the words: "We protest! And we ought to protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: We Protest! | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

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